We are under such lawlessness as our Lord told us there would be!
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blasted Travis County District Attorney José Garza who he described as a “Soros-backed” prosecutor. The attack on the district attorney followed the conviction by a local jury of Army Sergeant Daniel Perry in connection to the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter armed protester in July 2020. Sgt. Perry claimed self-defense in the case.
“Self-defense is a God-given right, not a crime,” Attorney General Paxton told Fox News on Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, the Soros-backed DA in Travis County cares more about the radical agenda of dangerous Antifa and BLM mobs than justice.”
“This week has shown us how rogue prosecutors have weaponized the judicial system,” AG Paxton added. “They must be stopped!”
His comments follow Sgt. Perry’s conviction on Friday by a jury in Travis County on Friday for the shooting death of Garret Foster. Perry claimed Foster pointed an AK-47 at him after protesters stopped his car as he attempted to move through the protest group.
Breitbart News’ Simon Kent reported the shooting which took place on July 25, 2020, during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. A Facebook video showed captured the incident but did not make the circumstances leading up to the shooting clear.
A few days later, Breitbart’s Amy Furr reported that Perry’s attorney identified him as the shooter and made the initial claim of self-defense. On the night of the shooting, Perry left the scene and stopped a short distance away to call the police and report the shooting.
Perry was reportedly driving an Uber rideshare at the time and became surrounded by protestors. The protesters banged on his car and Foster allegedly pointed the AK-47 at Perry while other protesters banged their fists on his car. Perry then fired at Foster from inside his car, Perry’s attorney stated.
On the day following the shooting, KVUE reported:
Perry claims that Foster approached his car and motioned for him to roll down his window. Initially, Perry said he thought Foster was a member of law enforcement.
“Sergeant Perry thought he might be law enforcement, given that he was carrying an assault rifle. And even though this is Texas, you don’t expect to see people in the middle of street with assault rifles,” Broden told KVUE in an interview on Friday night.
Perry said at some point, Foster raised his weapon at him, prompting him to shoot Foster.
“Somebody sees an assault rifle being raised at them, they’re not going to wait until the assault rifle gets 90 degrees to see what the person’s going to shoot. If they’re in a position to defend themselves, they’re going to do it,” [attorney Clint Broden] said.
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters they detained, questioned, and later released Sgt. Perry “pending further investigation.”
A subsequent attorney for Perry, Doug O’Connell, told Fox News, “When Garrett Foster pointed his AK-47 at Daniel Perry, Daniel had two-tenths of a second to defend himself. He chose to live.”
Following the conviction, Fox News Tucker Carlson defended Perry’s self-defense shooting of Foster and called upon Texas Governor Greg Abbott to consider a pardon for Perry. Texas 147th District Court Judge Clifford Brown (D) plans to meet with attorneys on Monday to set a date for a sentencing hearing. source
There is a scientific article about the death of Jesus, published in 1986 in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world—the JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.
The article is titled “On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ”.
In it the authors prove that the Roman flogging process was horribly cruel. Technical details are outlined, which, along with the Biblical narrative, provide a comprehensive overview of this entire process, from the trial to death on the cross.
Before judgment, it is narrated in Luke 22 that Jesus was in deep distress and sweating blood. Although a rare phenomenon, doctors recognize this feature as hematidrosis, which can occur due to high levels of stress.
After being judged, Jesus was violently whipped with a leather whip, with tiny balls of iron on the tips and pointy bones. The balls of iron caused internal injuries and bones tore apart flesh, exposing skeletal muscle and causing major blood loss, which probably left him in a pre-collision state.
After severe flogging, Jesus was mocked, spat on, and forced to carry his own cross to Golgotha.
During the crucifixion, the accused was thrown on the cross on the ground, and nailed with nails as long as 18 inches long on the wrists and feet.
Crucifixion was a process that produced intense pain and caused a slow and suffocating death.
Breathing was extremely painful. With every breath, Jesus had to lift his back up in live flesh, dragging it across the wood, and supporting all the weight on the feet, which were nailed. Fact that it increased blood loss and caused terrible pain.
The causes of death by crucifixion could be several, but the two most common were hypovolemic shock and suffocation from exhaustion.
When the Gospel of John narrates that after Jesus’ death a soldier transfered him with the spear and came out “blood and water”, the scientists explanation is that the water probably represented pleural fluid and serous pericardium and habr It was preceded by the flow of blood and it would be less volume than blood. Perhaps in the scenario of hypovolemia and acute heart failure, pleural and pericardic flashes could have developed and been added to the apparent volume of water.
Only by analyzing Jesus’ physical suffering, do we realize how terrible it must have been to endure all this.
Intense stress, sleepless night, unfair judgment, inhuman lashing, mocked and still having to carry his own instrument of death.
But even MORE So!
What “weighed” on His shoulders were our sins.
Isaiah prophesied: Isa 53:5: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” {King James Bible}
He was the sacrifice. Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Only God who became a man could reconcile men to God.
That’s why we say sacrifice was for love, because He had no sin, we did. If sin begets death, it was us who were to die, not Him.
So all your rot, all your evil thoughts and actions, all your rebellion against God.. this was all on Christ’s shoulders.
And He overcame not only sin but also death!.
When you think your life is too hard, that nothing is working, look at this picture and remember all that Jesus went through for the love of you. The punishment that brings us peace was upon HIM. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!
Happy Resurrection Day Everyone!
Christ is Risen, Alleluia!
The stone has been rolled away. Jesus is risen and reigns as the Prince of Peace forever. Enjoy celebrating the risen Christ with your loved ones today. Celebrate, knowing that He has come that we may have life; life to the fullest!
A federal judge released a decision on Friday evening halting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first drug used in a two-drug abortion regimen.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a 67-page opinion stating that the FDA unlawfully approved mifepristone. The Trump-appointed judge put his decision on hold for seven days to allow the “federal government time to seek emergency relief from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.”
“Chemical abortion is only the status quo insofar as Defendants’ unlawful actions and their delay in responding to Plaintiffs’ petitions have made it so. The fact that injunctive relief could upset this ‘status quo’ is therefore an insufficient basis to deny injunctive relief,” Kacsmaryk wrote.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit in November of 2022 against the FDA on behalf of four national medical associations and several doctors, alleging that the agency “chose politics over science and approved chemical abortion drugs for use in the United States.” The lawsuit pointed to six discrete agency actions since the legalization of mifepristone and misoprostol in 2000, and asked the court to hold the agency’s actions unlawful. The ADF filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and called the lawsuit the first of its kind.
Part of the ADF’s argument was that the “only way” the agency could have approved chemical abortion drugs “was to use its accelerated drug approval authority, necessitating that FDA to call pregnancy an ‘illness’ and argue that these dangerous drugs provide a ‘meaningful therapeutic benefit’ over existing treatments.”
“But pregnancy is not an illness, nor do chemical abortion drugs provide a therapeutic benefit over surgical abortion. In asserting these transparently false conclusions, the FDA exceeded its regulatory authority to approve the drugs,” the complaint states.
Kacsmaryk wrote in his decision that at most, the FDA could have lawfully approved mifepristone “for cases where a pregnant woman’s life or health is in danger,” but “even a limited approval of this sort would still not render pregnancy an ‘illness.”‘
“And surgical abortion — a statistically far safer procedure — would still be available to her. But in any case, that is not what FDA did. Instead, FDA manipulated and misconstrued the text…to greenlight elective chemical abortions on a wide scale. Therefore, Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of prevailing on their claim that Defendants violated [the law],” he continued.
The judge rebuffed the FDA’s argument that approval of the abortion pill should remain because unaborted children of the women “who seek but are unable to obtain an abortion” are “expected to do worse in school,” “to have more behavioral and social issues, and ultimately to attain lower levels of completed education,” and to have “lower earnings as adults, poorer health, and an increased likelihood of criminal involvement.”
“But using abortion to promote eugenic goals is morally and prudentially debatable,” he wrote. “Though eugenics were once fashionable in the Commanding Heights and High Court, they hold less purchase after the conflict, carnage, and casualties of the last century revealed the bloody consequences of Social Darwinism practiced by would-be Übermenschen.”
Kacsmaryk added that the “FDA stonewalled judicial review — until now,” and said the agency had ignored petitions against its approval of mifepristone for 16 years.
BREAKING🚨 Federal court ruled to halt the @US_FDA's approval of chemical abortion drugs.
This is a significant victory for the doctors and medical associations we represent and more importantly, the health and safety of women and girls.
— Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) April 7, 2023
The ADF issued a statement on Friday night calling the decision a “significant victory.”
“By illegally approving dangerous chemical abortion drugs, the FDA put women and girls in harm’s way, and it’s high time the agency is held accountable for its reckless actions,” Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist said.
He continued:
Pregnancy is not an illness, and chemical abortion drugs don’t provide a therapeutic benefit—they can pose serious and life-threatening complications to the mother, in addition to ending a baby’s life. The FDA never had the authority to approve these hazardous drugs and remove important safeguards. This is a significant victory for the doctors and medical associations we represent and more importantly, the health and safety of women and girls.
Today’s decision challenging the FDA's decades-long approval of mifepristone exposes how far anti-abortion activists will go to further restrict abortion nationwide.
We should be enraged that approval of a safe and effective abortion method could be overruled by ONE judge.
— Alexis McGill Johnson (@alexismcgill) April 7, 2023
President of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, tweeted that “we should be enraged” by the judge’s decision to halt the approval of the abortion pill.
In this screengrab President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Alexis McGill Johnson, participates in Supercharge: Women All In, a virtual day of action hosted by Supermajority, on September 26, 2020. (Getty Images/Getty Images for Supermajority)
“Today’s decision challenging the FDA’s decades-long approval of mifepristone exposes how far anti-abortion activists will go to further restrict abortion nationwide. We should be enraged that approval of a safe and effective abortion method could be overruled by ONE judge,” Johnson wrote.
SBA Pro-Life America’s State Policy Director Katie Glenn released a statement via email, calling the decision a “win for the health and safety of women and girls.”
“The ruling reaffirms that pregnancy is not an illness and abortion is not health care. Finally, the FDA is being held accountable for its egregious violation of its own rules to fast-track dangerous abortion drugs to market,” Glenn said. “The abortion drug regimen rubber-stamped by the FDA has proven disastrous for women as well as unborn children, with the FDA’s own data showing women have died. The Biden FDA ignored the science and approved abortion drugs for sale by mail-order, without any in-person doctor visit, which the strong majority of Americans oppose.”
Less than an hour after Kacsmaryk’s ruling, a federal judge out of Washington State issued a contradictory decision ordering the FDA to make no changes to the availability of mifepristone.
“The decision by Judge Kacsmaryk is an important victory for the rule of law,” Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Klukowski said in reaction to the decision from Texas. “The fact that multiple federal courts are going in opposite directions could quickly lead to what is called a circuit split at the appeals court level, which would likely send this issue to the Supreme Court within a year.”
SBA Pro-Life America pointed to polling it released on Friday showing that “Americans do not believe the FDA’s assertions that mail-order abortion drugs are safe – including 75 percent who agree the FDA should have performed studies focused on girls under the age of 18 before approving the abortion pill for minors.” The poll additionally found that 62 percent do not feel very confident “in the claim that the abortion pill is safe after being on the market for two decades, when they know that the FDA tracks no side effects other than death.”
“[Sixty-one percent] disagree that it is safe to distribute abortion pills through the mail with little to no supervision (41 percent strongly disagree), in light of the increased risk to women of coercion and abuse,” according to the organization. “Fifty-six percent] consider the FDA untrustworthy (31 percent very untrustworthy) when they learn that the FDA fast-tracked the abortion pill regimen using its accelerated drug approval authority by calling pregnancy a ‘life-threatening illness.”’
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that mifepristone is used for more than half of all abortions in the United States. In 2020, the drug accounted for 53 percent of all abortions, up from 39 percent in 2017.
The case is Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, No. 2:22-cv-223 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. source
